Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

published:17 Sep 2014

views:32015

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before. Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems.
For more information, please visit:
OpenPOWER Foundation - http://openpowerfoundation.org/
IBM Power Systems - www.ibm.com/power/

published:16 Sep 2015

views:1920

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

published:06 Feb 2016

views:2041

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than anything else you can get. You don’t have to rip and replace your existing infrastructure to transform your business, just put your most data intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them.
The S821LC - high density 1U dual socket POWER8 systems for compute intensive workloads and workload consolidation.
The S822LC for Big Data - a storage-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system for your data intensive workloads, designed with Hadoop and Spark in mind.
The S822LC for HPC - a compute-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system with up to four NVIDIAP100 'Pascal' GPUs. The POWERful POWER8 processor is NVLink-connected to the GPUs, avoiding the PCIe bus -- x86 can't do that! NVLink is 2.5x faster than PCIe and this system has leadership memory bandwidth to keep all these hungry processors fed.
For more information, please see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html

published:15 Sep 2016

views:1756

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC servers sit in the POWER8 portfolio that makes them the ideal open choice for the Cognitive Era.
With significant investment, IBM performed a design and cost optimization on the LC server family to come up with a powerful, open set of servers built on IBM POWER8 that has the innovation of our OpenPOWER partners built in, at a very competitive price point. All available with an online click to buy from the IBM DigitalMarketplace.
Speaker: Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP Power Systems OfferingManagement
More about IBM Power Systems: http://www.ibm.com/power/
Follow Power Systems on: https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems/"

IBM Power Systems

Before the Power Systems line was announced on April 2, 2008, IBM had two distinct Power-based lines: the System i running IBM i (formerly i5/OS and OS/400) - and the System p series running AIX or Linux.

They merged to use essentially the same hardware platform in 2001/2002 with the introduction of the POWER4 processor. After that, there was little difference between both the "p" and the "i" hardware; the only differences were in the software and services offerings. With the introduction of the POWER5 processor in 2004, even the product numbering was synchronized. The System i5 570 was virtually identical to the System p5 570.

In 2012, Fortune ranked IBM the second largest U.S. firm in terms of number of employees (435,000 worldwide), the fourth largest in terms of market capitalization, the ninth most profitable, and the nineteenth largest firm in terms of revenue. Globally, the company was ranked the 31st largest in terms of revenue by Forbes for 2011. Other rankings for 2011/2012 include №1 company for leaders (Fortune), №1 green company in the United States (Newsweek), №2 best global brand (Interbrand), №2 most respected company (Barron's), №5 most admired company (Fortune), and №18 most innovative company (Fast Company).

Belief

Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty. In other words, belief is when someone thinks something is reality, true, when they have no absolute verified foundation for their certainty of the truth or realness of something. Another way of defining belief is, it is a mental representation of an attitude positively orientated towards the likelihood of something being true. In the context of Ancient Greek thought, two related concepts were identified with regards to the concept of belief: pistis and doxa. Simplified, we may say that pistis refers to trust and confidence, while doxa refers to opinion and acceptance. The English word doctrine is derived from doxa. Belief's purpose is to guide action and not to indicate truth.

In epistemology, philosophers use the term ‘belief’ to refer to personal attitudes associated with true or false ideas and concepts. However, ‘belief’ does not require active introspection and circumspection. For example, we never ponder whether or not the sun will rise. We simply assume the sun will rise. Since ‘belief’ is an important aspect of mundane life, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the question that must be answered is, “how a physical organism can have beliefs” (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/belief/).

Open innovation

Open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor and faculty director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, in a book of the same name, though the idea and discussion about some consequences (especially the interfirm cooperation in R&D) date as far back as the 1960s. The term refers to the use of both inflows and outflows of knowledge to improve internal innovation and expand the markets for external exploitation of innovation.

“Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology”. Alternatively, it is "innovating with partners by sharing risk and sharing reward." The boundaries between a firm and its environment have become more permeable; innovations can easily transfer inward and outward.

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

2:20

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before. Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems.
For more information, please visit:
OpenPOWER Foundation - http://openpowerfoundation.org/
IBM Power Systems - www.ibm.com/power/

46:02

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

6:01

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

IBM Power Systems Launches New OpenPOWER LC Servers

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than anything else you can get. You don’t have to rip and replace your existing infrastructure to transform your business, just put your most data intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them.
The S821LC - high density 1U dual socket POWER8 systems for compute intensive workloads and workload consolidation.
The S822LC for Big Data - a storage-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system for your data intensive workloads, designed with Hadoop and Spark in mind.
The S822LC for HPC - a compute-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system with up to four NVIDIAP100 'Pascal' GPUs. The POWERful POWER8 processor is NVLink-connected to the GPUs, avoiding the PCIe bus -- x86 can't do that! NVLink is 2.5x faster than PCIe and this system has leadership memory bandwidth to keep all these hungry processors fed.
For more information, please see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html

2:35

IBM OpenPOWER LC Servers - The Open Choice for the Cognitive Era

IBM OpenPOWER LC Servers - The Open Choice for the Cognitive Era

IBM OpenPOWER LC Servers - The Open Choice for the Cognitive Era

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC servers sit in the POWER8 portfolio that makes them the ideal open choice for the Cognitive Era.
With significant investment, IBM performed a design and cost optimization on the LC server family to come up with a powerful, open set of servers built on IBM POWER8 that has the innovation of our OpenPOWER partners built in, at a very competitive price point. All available with an online click to buy from the IBM DigitalMarketplace.
Speaker: Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP Power Systems OfferingManagement
More about IBM Power Systems: http://www.ibm.com/power/
Follow Power Systems on: https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems/"

OpenPowerFoundation

https://openpowerfoundation.org/
The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize POWERCPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs. These innovations include custom systems for large or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, platform optimization for SW appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation. OpenPOWER members are actively pursing all of these innovations and more and welcome all parties to join in moving the state of the art of OpenPOWER systems design forward.

8:55

Google's Maira Mahony at OpenPOWER Summit

Google's Maira Mahony at OpenPOWER Summit

Google's Maira Mahony at OpenPOWER Summit

1:38

POWER8 Scale-Out: CAPI Flash Technology

POWER8 Scale-Out: CAPI Flash Technology

POWER8 Scale-Out: CAPI Flash Technology

FollowPower Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on CAPI here: http://ibm.co/1BEsTGa
The IBM POWER8 CoherentAccelerator Processor Interface, or CAPI, can also be leveraged as the basis for flash in-memory expansion. An innovative solution designed to reduce latency and speed up access to data, CAPI Flash creates a bigger memory store that is the driving force behind fast access to data.

Believe in OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before.
For more information, please visit:
IBM Power Systems - http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems. For more information, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
#Power, #OpenPOWER, #BelieveInPower8

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

published: 17 Sep 2014

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before. Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems.
For more information, please visit:
OpenPOWER Foundation - http://openpowerfoundation.org/
IBM Power Systems - www.ibm.com/power/

published: 16 Sep 2015

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and e...

published: 06 Feb 2016

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ...

OpenPOWER Summit Europe 2016 - Power 9 Roadmap

IBM Power Systems Launches New OpenPOWER LC Servers

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than anything else you can get. You don’t have to rip and replace your existing infrastructure to transform your business, just put your most data intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them.
The S821LC - high density 1U dual socket POWER8 systems for compute intensive workloads and workload consolidation.
The S822LC for Big Data - a storage-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system for your data intensive workloads, designed with Hadoop and Spark in mind.
The S822LC for HPC - a compute-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system with up to four ...

published: 15 Sep 2016

IBM OpenPOWER LC Servers - The Open Choice for the Cognitive Era

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC servers sit in the POWER8 portfolio that makes them the ideal open choice for the Cognitive Era.
With significant investment, IBM performed a design and cost optimization on the LC server family to come up with a powerful, open set of servers built on IBM POWER8 that has the innovation of our OpenPOWER partners built in, at a very competitive price point. All available with an online click to buy from the IBM DigitalMarketplace.
Speaker: Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP Power Systems OfferingManagement
More about IBM Power Systems: http://www.ibm.com/power/
Follow Power Systems on: https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems/"

OpenPowerFoundation

https://openpowerfoundation.org/
The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize POWERCPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs. These innovations include custom systems for large or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, platform optimization for SW appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation. OpenPOWER members are actively pursing all of these innovations and more and welcome all parties to join in moving the state of the art of OpenPOWER systems design forward.

published: 24 Dec 2017

Google's Maira Mahony at OpenPOWER Summit

published: 06 Apr 2016

POWER8 Scale-Out: CAPI Flash Technology

FollowPower Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on CAPI here: http://ibm.co/1BEsTGa
The IBM POWER8 CoherentAccelerator Processor Interface, or CAPI, can also be leveraged as the basis for flash in-memory expansion. An innovative solution designed to reduce latency and speed up access to data, CAPI Flash creates a bigger memory store that is the driving force behind fast access to data.

Believe in OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before.
For more information, please visit:
IBM Power Systems - http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems. For more information, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
#Power, #OpenPOWER, #BelieveInPower8

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approac...

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex an...

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before. Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems.
For more information, please visit:
OpenPOWER Foundation - http://openpowerfoundation.org/
IBM Power Systems - www.ibm.com/power/

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before. Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems.
For more information, please visit:
OpenPOWER Foundation - http://openpowerfoundation.org/
IBM Power Systems - www.ibm.com/power/

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early s...

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

IBM Power Systems Launches New OpenPOWER LC Servers

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are diffe...

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than anything else you can get. You don’t have to rip and replace your existing infrastructure to transform your business, just put your most data intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them.
The S821LC - high density 1U dual socket POWER8 systems for compute intensive workloads and workload consolidation.
The S822LC for Big Data - a storage-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system for your data intensive workloads, designed with Hadoop and Spark in mind.
The S822LC for HPC - a compute-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system with up to four NVIDIAP100 'Pascal' GPUs. The POWERful POWER8 processor is NVLink-connected to the GPUs, avoiding the PCIe bus -- x86 can't do that! NVLink is 2.5x faster than PCIe and this system has leadership memory bandwidth to keep all these hungry processors fed.
For more information, please see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than anything else you can get. You don’t have to rip and replace your existing infrastructure to transform your business, just put your most data intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them.
The S821LC - high density 1U dual socket POWER8 systems for compute intensive workloads and workload consolidation.
The S822LC for Big Data - a storage-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system for your data intensive workloads, designed with Hadoop and Spark in mind.
The S822LC for HPC - a compute-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system with up to four NVIDIAP100 'Pascal' GPUs. The POWERful POWER8 processor is NVLink-connected to the GPUs, avoiding the PCIe bus -- x86 can't do that! NVLink is 2.5x faster than PCIe and this system has leadership memory bandwidth to keep all these hungry processors fed.
For more information, please see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC servers sit in the POWER8 portfolio that makes them the ideal open choice for the Cognitive Era.
With significant investment, IBM performed a design and cost optimization on the LC server family to come up with a powerful, open set of servers built on IBM POWER8 that has the innovation of our OpenPOWER partners built in, at a very competitive price point. All available with an online click to buy from the IBM DigitalMarketplace.
Speaker: Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP Power Systems OfferingManagement
More about IBM Power Systems: http://www.ibm.com/power/
Follow Power Systems on: https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems/"

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC servers sit in the POWER8 portfolio that makes them the ideal open choice for the Cognitive Era.
With significant investment, IBM performed a design and cost optimization on the LC server family to come up with a powerful, open set of servers built on IBM POWER8 that has the innovation of our OpenPOWER partners built in, at a very competitive price point. All available with an online click to buy from the IBM DigitalMarketplace.
Speaker: Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP Power Systems OfferingManagement
More about IBM Power Systems: http://www.ibm.com/power/
Follow Power Systems on: https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems/"

OpenPowerFoundation

https://openpowerfoundation.org/
The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to ret...

https://openpowerfoundation.org/
The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize POWERCPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs. These innovations include custom systems for large or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, platform optimization for SW appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation. OpenPOWER members are actively pursing all of these innovations and more and welcome all parties to join in moving the state of the art of OpenPOWER systems design forward.

https://openpowerfoundation.org/
The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize POWERCPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs. These innovations include custom systems for large or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, platform optimization for SW appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation. OpenPOWER members are actively pursing all of these innovations and more and welcome all parties to join in moving the state of the art of OpenPOWER systems design forward.

FollowPower Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on CAPI here: http://ibm.co/1BEsTGa
The IBM POWER8 CoherentAccelerator Processor Interface, or CAPI, can also be leveraged as the basis for flash in-memory expansion. An innovative solution designed to reduce latency and speed up access to data, CAPI Flash creates a bigger memory store that is the driving force behind fast access to data.

FollowPower Systems on YouTube to see how POWER8 puts the power in YOUR hands and read the blog on CAPI here: http://ibm.co/1BEsTGa
The IBM POWER8 CoherentAccelerator Processor Interface, or CAPI, can also be leveraged as the basis for flash in-memory expansion. An innovative solution designed to reduce latency and speed up access to data, CAPI Flash creates a bigger memory store that is the driving force behind fast access to data.

Believe in OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex an...

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before.
For more information, please visit:
IBM Power Systems - http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems. For more information, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
#Power, #OpenPOWER, #BelieveInPower8

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before.
For more information, please visit:
IBM Power Systems - http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems. For more information, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/uk/power/believe/
#Power, #OpenPOWER, #BelieveInPower8

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and e...

published: 06 Feb 2016

34C3 - openPower - the current state of commercial openness in CPU development

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9202-openpower_-_the_current_state_of_commercial_openness_in_cpu_development
is there no such thing as open hardware?
How does developing future processors with yesterdays capabilities work out today? CPU development is something out of focus these days. In this lecture I would like to show the state-of-the-art processor development flow of POWER processors from the first initial ideas to post-silicon testing. Apart from x86 Intel products there have been initiatives across the hardware industry to form some alternative business model. I would like to show if and how this compares to real open principals.
This talk should first give a brief overview of how processor development is done these days and which steps are required to get to working products at the ...

published: 30 Dec 2017

OpenPOWER Foundation Overview

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

IBM's Brad McCredie at OpenPOWER Summit

published: 06 Apr 2016

Strategy and Directions for the IBM Mainframe

CA World '15 MainframeTheater: Mark Anzani, VP, Strategy, Resilience and Ecosystems - The IBM z Systems™ portfolio of products continues to support critical enterprise processing around the world. In this session, the speaker will cover the strategic directions for the platform and the reasons for these directions based upon technology and client trends.
For more information, please visit: http://cainc.to/uFRSRw

published: 11 Dec 2015

KVM on IBM POWER8 servers

Paul Mackerras
http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30188/view_talk
Last June, IBM released server machines based on its new POWER8 processor chip. Among the many cool new features in these systems, one stands out: you can now order these systems with KVM as the hypervisor, as an alternative to IBM's proprietary PowerVM.
Our flavour of KVM (we call it PowerKVM) is based on the Linux kernel, KVM, qemu and libvirt, all of which are open source. We also include the open-source Kimchi web interface for virtualization management, or OpenStack or oVirt can be used for management.
The host kernel on these POWER8 machines uses the services of a piece of firmware called OPAL, for OpenPower Abstraction Layer. OPAL is open source, and provides services such as console, real-time clock, non-...

published: 15 Jan 2015

OpenPOWER Developer Challenge: Using NVIDIA GPUs on OpenPOWER

Kolab and Power8: How OpenPOWER is changing the game

Talk of Kolab SystemsCEOGeorg Greve at the FSFESummit & QtCon 2016 in Berlin:
Openness and freedom have been moving up and down the stack. By now it is possible to run a data center for High Performance Computing that far outperforms Intel on a complete open hardware and software platform. More energy efficient, made for plug-in cryptography, OpenPOWER is the closest we have come to a stack that is 100% free & open from the hardware over the firmware all the way to the software. Georg will be speaking about why Kolab has been engaging with the OpenPOWER Foundation, our experiences and the potential that OpenPOWER has for software freedom and the IT industry in general.

published: 20 Sep 2016

OpenPOWER Developer Challenge: Using IBM XL Compilers

IBM Power 720 Power7 Server Overview and Power Up

So literally a day after I made that IntellistationPOWER video I got this server for a good price. This is an IBM Power720 server with a single quad core Power7CPU at 3ghz and 8GB of RAM. I still need to get HDDs for this but it seems to be working fine.

published: 07 Aug 2016

Open CAPI, A New Standard for High Performance Attachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks

OpenPOWER Summit 2015

OpenPOWER Foundation Chairman Gordon MacKean and OpenPOWER Foundation PresidentBrad McCredie present keynote addresses at the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the San Jose Convention Center.
Vice PresidentMichael Diamond opens the Summit with an introduction, and then MacKean explains the vision behind the OpenPOWER Foundation and how its 100+ member community is leveraging open innovation to deliver top performing, scale-out design on the POWER8 infrastructure to the data center market.
Following MacKean’s presentation, McCredie reveals more than 15 new hardware solutions from OpenPOWER Foundation members that are disrupting the data center ecosystem. McCredie also shares how the OpenPOWER Foundation is meeting the need for business model and technology innovation.

published: 01 Apr 2015

Challenges and discoveries bringing open source software to the PowerPC64LE world.

Leonardo Bianconi
http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/25/
PowerPC64 little-endian mode was introduced with POWER8 system family, making it easier to port x86_64 applications to it. This is the main target of technologies provided by OpenPOWER Foundation, which is a collaboration for Power Architecture products.
This talk will show the biggest challenges found to port a software initially designed to x86_64 architecture, and what were the solutions adopted, beyond expose some differences between both architectures. Some topics are:
* How to handle the frame differences.
* Push/Pop values dynamically in a PPC64 frame.
* Adapting assembly memory operations.
* Using TOC (Table Of Contents) as an amazing tool.
HHVM, which is the main target of this talk, is a PHP...

published: 25 Jan 2018

IBM Linux on Power and POWER8

HPC Solution Stack on OpenPOWER

In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Jing Li
shows the Platform system management stack on the OpenPOWER platform.
"This demo will show the capability of IBM OpenPOWER that can be the foundation of the complicated High Performance Computing complete solution. From the HPC cluster deployment, job scheduling, system management, application management to the science computing workloads on top of them, all these components can be well constructed on top of IBM OpenPOWER platform with good usability and performance. Also this demo shows the simplicity of migrating a complete x86 based HPC stack to the OpenPOWER platform."
Learn more: http://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/hpc-solution-stack-on-openpower/
Sign up for our newsletter: http://insideHPC.com/newsletter

Linux users love open source, but did you know that there is a completely open processor architecture that runs your favorite Linux distros? Meet OpenPOWER and the POWER chip! Open sourced by IBM in 2013 and stewarded by the OpenPOWER Foundation, the Power architecture provides key advantages over x86 for many Linux workloads. Learn from IBM Linux Toolchain Architect Steven Munroe about the POWER architecture and the current POWER8 chip, key specs for the upcoming and revolutionary POWER9 chip, and some of the tools and processes that you can use to port your x86 apps over to Power to see all-new levels of performance!
Speaker Bio:
Steve Munroe is a member of the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) and has been the Linux on Power Toolchain Architect for 10 years.
Steve has 42 years of prof...

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

published:06 Feb 2016

views:2041

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34C3 - openPower - the current state of commercial openness in CPU development

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9202-openpower_-_the_current_state_of_commercial_openness_in_cpu_development
is there no such thing as open hardware?
How does dev...

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9202-openpower_-_the_current_state_of_commercial_openness_in_cpu_development
is there no such thing as open hardware?
How does developing future processors with yesterdays capabilities work out today? CPU development is something out of focus these days. In this lecture I would like to show the state-of-the-art processor development flow of POWER processors from the first initial ideas to post-silicon testing. Apart from x86 Intel products there have been initiatives across the hardware industry to form some alternative business model. I would like to show if and how this compares to real open principals.
This talk should first give a brief overview of how processor development is done these days and which steps are required to get to working products at the end of the day, what is needed from a technical perspective, how many people are involved during the process and which process steps are required. Second it should show which requirements are out there for server/cloud products and their customers. Third it should address why there is this openPOWER initiative and what it all means in regards to hardware development. It should show more detailed information the ideas behind this group of different hardware suppliers and universities. It will definitely not end up in an promotional talk but more look behind the curtains how open this format really is and if it can be used by real people at the end or if it only applies to commercial entities.
Matteo Michel
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/9202.html

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9202-openpower_-_the_current_state_of_commercial_openness_in_cpu_development
is there no such thing as open hardware?
How does developing future processors with yesterdays capabilities work out today? CPU development is something out of focus these days. In this lecture I would like to show the state-of-the-art processor development flow of POWER processors from the first initial ideas to post-silicon testing. Apart from x86 Intel products there have been initiatives across the hardware industry to form some alternative business model. I would like to show if and how this compares to real open principals.
This talk should first give a brief overview of how processor development is done these days and which steps are required to get to working products at the end of the day, what is needed from a technical perspective, how many people are involved during the process and which process steps are required. Second it should show which requirements are out there for server/cloud products and their customers. Third it should address why there is this openPOWER initiative and what it all means in regards to hardware development. It should show more detailed information the ideas behind this group of different hardware suppliers and universities. It will definitely not end up in an promotional talk but more look behind the curtains how open this format really is and if it can be used by real people at the end or if it only applies to commercial entities.
Matteo Michel
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/9202.html

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

CA World '15 MainframeTheater: Mark Anzani, VP, Strategy, Resilience and Ecosystems - The IBM z Systems™ portfolio of products continues to support critical enterprise processing around the world. In this session, the speaker will cover the strategic directions for the platform and the reasons for these directions based upon technology and client trends.
For more information, please visit: http://cainc.to/uFRSRw

CA World '15 MainframeTheater: Mark Anzani, VP, Strategy, Resilience and Ecosystems - The IBM z Systems™ portfolio of products continues to support critical enterprise processing around the world. In this session, the speaker will cover the strategic directions for the platform and the reasons for these directions based upon technology and client trends.
For more information, please visit: http://cainc.to/uFRSRw

KVM on IBM POWER8 servers

Paul Mackerras
http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30188/view_talk
Last June, IBM released server machines based on its new POWER8 processor chip. Among the m...

Paul Mackerras
http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30188/view_talk
Last June, IBM released server machines based on its new POWER8 processor chip. Among the many cool new features in these systems, one stands out: you can now order these systems with KVM as the hypervisor, as an alternative to IBM's proprietary PowerVM.
Our flavour of KVM (we call it PowerKVM) is based on the Linux kernel, KVM, qemu and libvirt, all of which are open source. We also include the open-source Kimchi web interface for virtualization management, or OpenStack or oVirt can be used for management.
The host kernel on these POWER8 machines uses the services of a piece of firmware called OPAL, for OpenPower Abstraction Layer. OPAL is open source, and provides services such as console, real-time clock, non-volatile RAM and a boot loader.
This presentation examines this software stack and covers the issues in porting KVM to run on the POWER8 CPU, which was designed for PowerVM. Some ingenuity was required to bridge the gap to the KVM model of virtualization. In particular, each POWER8 core has 8 hardware threads, but will only run 4 separate guests simultaneously, which creates interesting problems in scheduling guests.

Paul Mackerras
http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30188/view_talk
Last June, IBM released server machines based on its new POWER8 processor chip. Among the many cool new features in these systems, one stands out: you can now order these systems with KVM as the hypervisor, as an alternative to IBM's proprietary PowerVM.
Our flavour of KVM (we call it PowerKVM) is based on the Linux kernel, KVM, qemu and libvirt, all of which are open source. We also include the open-source Kimchi web interface for virtualization management, or OpenStack or oVirt can be used for management.
The host kernel on these POWER8 machines uses the services of a piece of firmware called OPAL, for OpenPower Abstraction Layer. OPAL is open source, and provides services such as console, real-time clock, non-volatile RAM and a boot loader.
This presentation examines this software stack and covers the issues in porting KVM to run on the POWER8 CPU, which was designed for PowerVM. Some ingenuity was required to bridge the gap to the KVM model of virtualization. In particular, each POWER8 core has 8 hardware threads, but will only run 4 separate guests simultaneously, which creates interesting problems in scheduling guests.

Talk of Kolab SystemsCEOGeorg Greve at the FSFESummit & QtCon 2016 in Berlin:
Openness and freedom have been moving up and down the stack. By now it is possible to run a data center for High Performance Computing that far outperforms Intel on a complete open hardware and software platform. More energy efficient, made for plug-in cryptography, OpenPOWER is the closest we have come to a stack that is 100% free & open from the hardware over the firmware all the way to the software. Georg will be speaking about why Kolab has been engaging with the OpenPOWER Foundation, our experiences and the potential that OpenPOWER has for software freedom and the IT industry in general.

Talk of Kolab SystemsCEOGeorg Greve at the FSFESummit & QtCon 2016 in Berlin:
Openness and freedom have been moving up and down the stack. By now it is possible to run a data center for High Performance Computing that far outperforms Intel on a complete open hardware and software platform. More energy efficient, made for plug-in cryptography, OpenPOWER is the closest we have come to a stack that is 100% free & open from the hardware over the firmware all the way to the software. Georg will be speaking about why Kolab has been engaging with the OpenPOWER Foundation, our experiences and the potential that OpenPOWER has for software freedom and the IT industry in general.

So literally a day after I made that IntellistationPOWER video I got this server for a good price. This is an IBM Power720 server with a single quad core Power7CPU at 3ghz and 8GB of RAM. I still need to get HDDs for this but it seems to be working fine.

So literally a day after I made that IntellistationPOWER video I got this server for a good price. This is an IBM Power720 server with a single quad core Power7CPU at 3ghz and 8GB of RAM. I still need to get HDDs for this but it seems to be working fine.

published:07 Aug 2016

views:5312

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Open CAPI, A New Standard for High Performance Attachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks

In this video from the SwitzerlandHPCConference, Jeffrey Stuecheli from IBM presents: OpenCAPI, A New Standard for HighPerformanceAttachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks.
"OpenCAPI sets a new standard for the industry, providing a high bandwidth, low latency open interface design specification. This session will introduce the new standard and it's goals. This includes details on how the interface protocol provides unprecedented latency and bandwidth to attached devices."
Dr. Stuecheli is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Systems and TechnologyGroup. He works in the area of server hardware architecture. His most recent work includes advanced memory architectures, cache coherence, and accelerator design. He has contributed to the development of numerous IBM products in the POWER architecture family, most recently the POWER8 design. He has been appointed an IBM Master Inventor, authoring some 100 patents. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of TexasAustin in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Stuecheli is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Systems and Technology Group. He works in the area of server hardware architecture. His most recent work includes advanced memory architectures, cache coherence, and accelerator design. He has contributed to the development of numerous IBM products in the POWER architecture family, most recently the POWER8 design. He has been appointed an IBM Master Inventor, authoring some 100 patents. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas Austin in Electrical Engineering.
Learn more: https://openpowerfoundation.org/
and
http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2017/swiss-workshop/agenda.phpSign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter

In this video from the SwitzerlandHPCConference, Jeffrey Stuecheli from IBM presents: OpenCAPI, A New Standard for HighPerformanceAttachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks.
"OpenCAPI sets a new standard for the industry, providing a high bandwidth, low latency open interface design specification. This session will introduce the new standard and it's goals. This includes details on how the interface protocol provides unprecedented latency and bandwidth to attached devices."
Dr. Stuecheli is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Systems and TechnologyGroup. He works in the area of server hardware architecture. His most recent work includes advanced memory architectures, cache coherence, and accelerator design. He has contributed to the development of numerous IBM products in the POWER architecture family, most recently the POWER8 design. He has been appointed an IBM Master Inventor, authoring some 100 patents. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of TexasAustin in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Stuecheli is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Systems and Technology Group. He works in the area of server hardware architecture. His most recent work includes advanced memory architectures, cache coherence, and accelerator design. He has contributed to the development of numerous IBM products in the POWER architecture family, most recently the POWER8 design. He has been appointed an IBM Master Inventor, authoring some 100 patents. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas Austin in Electrical Engineering.
Learn more: https://openpowerfoundation.org/
and
http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2017/swiss-workshop/agenda.phpSign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter

OpenPOWER Foundation Chairman Gordon MacKean and OpenPOWER Foundation PresidentBrad McCredie present keynote addresses at the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the San Jose Convention Center.
Vice PresidentMichael Diamond opens the Summit with an introduction, and then MacKean explains the vision behind the OpenPOWER Foundation and how its 100+ member community is leveraging open innovation to deliver top performing, scale-out design on the POWER8 infrastructure to the data center market.
Following MacKean’s presentation, McCredie reveals more than 15 new hardware solutions from OpenPOWER Foundation members that are disrupting the data center ecosystem. McCredie also shares how the OpenPOWER Foundation is meeting the need for business model and technology innovation.

OpenPOWER Foundation Chairman Gordon MacKean and OpenPOWER Foundation PresidentBrad McCredie present keynote addresses at the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the San Jose Convention Center.
Vice PresidentMichael Diamond opens the Summit with an introduction, and then MacKean explains the vision behind the OpenPOWER Foundation and how its 100+ member community is leveraging open innovation to deliver top performing, scale-out design on the POWER8 infrastructure to the data center market.
Following MacKean’s presentation, McCredie reveals more than 15 new hardware solutions from OpenPOWER Foundation members that are disrupting the data center ecosystem. McCredie also shares how the OpenPOWER Foundation is meeting the need for business model and technology innovation.

published:01 Apr 2015

views:926

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Challenges and discoveries bringing open source software to the PowerPC64LE world.

Leonardo Bianconi
http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/25/
PowerPC64 little-endian mode was introduced with POWER8 system family, making it easie...

Leonardo Bianconi
http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/25/
PowerPC64 little-endian mode was introduced with POWER8 system family, making it easier to port x86_64 applications to it. This is the main target of technologies provided by OpenPOWER Foundation, which is a collaboration for Power Architecture products.
This talk will show the biggest challenges found to port a software initially designed to x86_64 architecture, and what were the solutions adopted, beyond expose some differences between both architectures. Some topics are:
* How to handle the frame differences.
* Push/Pop values dynamically in a PPC64 frame.
* Adapting assembly memory operations.
* Using TOC (Table Of Contents) as an amazing tool.
HHVM, which is the main target of this talk, is a PHP interpreter built by Facebook, which implements the JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation technique to dynamically translate part of itself into assembly code, making its execution faster.
This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.
linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/
#linux.conf.au #linux #foss #opensource

Leonardo Bianconi
http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/25/
PowerPC64 little-endian mode was introduced with POWER8 system family, making it easier to port x86_64 applications to it. This is the main target of technologies provided by OpenPOWER Foundation, which is a collaboration for Power Architecture products.
This talk will show the biggest challenges found to port a software initially designed to x86_64 architecture, and what were the solutions adopted, beyond expose some differences between both architectures. Some topics are:
* How to handle the frame differences.
* Push/Pop values dynamically in a PPC64 frame.
* Adapting assembly memory operations.
* Using TOC (Table Of Contents) as an amazing tool.
HHVM, which is the main target of this talk, is a PHP interpreter built by Facebook, which implements the JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation technique to dynamically translate part of itself into assembly code, making its execution faster.
This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.
linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/
#linux.conf.au #linux #foss #opensource

In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Jing Li
shows the Platform system management stack on the OpenPOWER platform.
"This demo will show the capability of IBM OpenPOWER that can be the foundation of the complicated High Performance Computing complete solution. From the HPC cluster deployment, job scheduling, system management, application management to the science computing workloads on top of them, all these components can be well constructed on top of IBM OpenPOWER platform with good usability and performance. Also this demo shows the simplicity of migrating a complete x86 based HPC stack to the OpenPOWER platform."
Learn more: http://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/hpc-solution-stack-on-openpower/
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In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Jing Li
shows the Platform system management stack on the OpenPOWER platform.
"This demo will show the capability of IBM OpenPOWER that can be the foundation of the complicated High Performance Computing complete solution. From the HPC cluster deployment, job scheduling, system management, application management to the science computing workloads on top of them, all these components can be well constructed on top of IBM OpenPOWER platform with good usability and performance. Also this demo shows the simplicity of migrating a complete x86 based HPC stack to the OpenPOWER platform."
Learn more: http://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/hpc-solution-stack-on-openpower/
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Linux users love open source, but did you know that there is a completely open processor architecture that runs your favorite Linux distros? Meet OpenPOWER and ...

Linux users love open source, but did you know that there is a completely open processor architecture that runs your favorite Linux distros? Meet OpenPOWER and the POWER chip! Open sourced by IBM in 2013 and stewarded by the OpenPOWER Foundation, the Power architecture provides key advantages over x86 for many Linux workloads. Learn from IBM Linux Toolchain Architect Steven Munroe about the POWER architecture and the current POWER8 chip, key specs for the upcoming and revolutionary POWER9 chip, and some of the tools and processes that you can use to port your x86 apps over to Power to see all-new levels of performance!
Speaker Bio:
Steve Munroe is a member of the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) and has been the Linux on Power Toolchain Architect for 10 years.
Steve has 42 years of professional experience, while working on a plethora of OS and Application projects, too numerous to mention. Steven has spent the last 15 years working on Linux and open source starting with the Powerpc64 port for GLIBC.
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/233472772/

Linux users love open source, but did you know that there is a completely open processor architecture that runs your favorite Linux distros? Meet OpenPOWER and the POWER chip! Open sourced by IBM in 2013 and stewarded by the OpenPOWER Foundation, the Power architecture provides key advantages over x86 for many Linux workloads. Learn from IBM Linux Toolchain Architect Steven Munroe about the POWER architecture and the current POWER8 chip, key specs for the upcoming and revolutionary POWER9 chip, and some of the tools and processes that you can use to port your x86 apps over to Power to see all-new levels of performance!
Speaker Bio:
Steve Munroe is a member of the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) and has been the Linux on Power Toolchain Architect for 10 years.
Steve has 42 years of professional experience, while working on a plethora of OS and Application projects, too numerous to mention. Steven has spent the last 15 years working on Linux and open source starting with the Powerpc64 port for GLIBC.
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/233472772/

Volkswagen Technology: Easy Open Power Tailgate

Got your hands full and your car key in your pocket? Hands free boot opening uses a sensor beneath the rear bumper to automatically open the boot as you approach. Perfect when you need a helping hand.
Learn more about Volkswagen's technologies for comfort and convenience here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/comfort-and-convenience
We'd love to know what you think of the ad on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenUK
And you can visit us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/UKVolkswagen

2:20

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast...

OpenPOWER Innovation: Now and in the Future

Technology is smarter than ever, but to unleash its potential it must be powered by a fast, open and scalable infrastructure. With IBM OpenPOWER, the complex and varied capabilities of technology are more accessible than ever before. Believe inOpen? Believe in IBM Power Systems.
For more information, please visit:
OpenPOWER Foundation - http://openpowerfoundation.org/
IBM Power Systems - www.ibm.com/power/

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

6:01

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC bui...

Quick Look at a OpenPOWER S812LC

Nigel and Mike take a quick look at the outside and inside of the IBM OpenPOWER S812LC built by Tyan and highlight the prime features.
Note: this is an early ship version of the machine so might have minor differences like missing health and safety stickers and cables and handles in the wrong colour.
At the end is a quick summary of the S812LC configuration options.
POWER8: 8x3.3 GHz or 10x2.9 GHz
Memory: 32 DIMMS from 64GB to 1 TB
Internal disks: 0 to 2 – 1 TB or 6 TB via daughter board
Front disks: 0 to12 – 6 TB, 7200RPM, Enterprise
Via Adaptec RAID adapters: Mirror/strip or cached RAID5Fibre Channel 8Gb SAN adapter
Range of Ethernet adapters: 1 Gb,10 Gb or 40Gb
Ubuntu 14.04.03 or later
Red Hat 7.2 or later
PowerKVM 3.1 or later
BMCService Processor: ipmitool, Petitboot & GUI
Nigel refers to the AIXpert Blog entries for the S812LC machine - the first has lots of detailed pictures:
1 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_First_Look
2 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_2nd_Look_Fount_Disk_Bay
3 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S812LC_3th_Look_Simple_Install_from_Media
4 https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/OpenPOWER_IBM_S822LC_4th_Look_Firmware_RAID_Disk_Setup

IBM Power Systems Launches New OpenPOWER LC Servers

Get the flexibility you need for seamless datacenter and cloud integration while achieving new insights faster through acceleration. OpenPOWER servers are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than anything else you can get. You don’t have to rip and replace your existing infrastructure to transform your business, just put your most data intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them.
The S821LC - high density 1U dual socket POWER8 systems for compute intensive workloads and workload consolidation.
The S822LC for Big Data - a storage-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system for your data intensive workloads, designed with Hadoop and Spark in mind.
The S822LC for HPC - a compute-rich 2U dual socket POWER8 system with up to four NVIDIAP100 'Pascal' GPUs. The POWERful POWER8 processor is NVLink-connected to the GPUs, avoiding the PCIe bus -- x86 can't do that! NVLink is 2.5x faster than PCIe and this system has leadership memory bandwidth to keep all these hungry processors fed.
For more information, please see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/linux-lc.html

2:35

IBM OpenPOWER LC Servers - The Open Choice for the Cognitive Era

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC se...

IBM OpenPOWER LC Servers - The Open Choice for the Cognitive Era

"Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP of Power Systems, talks about the unique position OpenPOWER LC servers sit in the POWER8 portfolio that makes them the ideal open choice for the Cognitive Era.
With significant investment, IBM performed a design and cost optimization on the LC server family to come up with a powerful, open set of servers built on IBM POWER8 that has the innovation of our OpenPOWER partners built in, at a very competitive price point. All available with an online click to buy from the IBM DigitalMarketplace.
Speaker: Stefanie Chiras, IBM VP Power Systems OfferingManagement
More about IBM Power Systems: http://www.ibm.com/power/
Follow Power Systems on: https://twitter.com/IBMPowerSystems/"

56:35

OpenPOWER Developer Challenge: Using NVIDIA GPUs on OpenPOWER

Meet the experts from NVIDIA and learn all about accelerating your application with GPUs.

Adventures in OpenPower Firmware

Stewart Smith
https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30215/view_talk
In mid 2014, IBM released the first POWER8 based systems with the new Free and Open SourceOPAL
firmware. Since then, several members of the OpenPower foundation have produced
(or are currently producing) machines based on the POWER8 processor with
the OPAL firmware.
This talk will cover the POWER8 chip with an open source firmware stack and how it all fits together.
We will walk through all of the firmware components and what they do,
including the boot sequence from power being applied up to booting an
operating system.
We'll delve into:
- the time before you have RAM
- the time before you have thermal management
- the time before you have PCI
- runtime processor diagnostics and repair
- the bootloader (and extending it)
- building and flashing your own firmware
- using a simulator instead
- the firmware interface that Linux talks to
- device tree and OPAL calls
- fun in firmware QA and testing

31:40

34C3 - openPower - the current state of commercial openness in CPU development

34C3 - openPower - the current state of commercial openness in CPU development

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9202-openpower_-_the_current_state_of_commercial_openness_in_cpu_development
is there no such thing as open hardware?
How does developing future processors with yesterdays capabilities work out today? CPU development is something out of focus these days. In this lecture I would like to show the state-of-the-art processor development flow of POWER processors from the first initial ideas to post-silicon testing. Apart from x86 Intel products there have been initiatives across the hardware industry to form some alternative business model. I would like to show if and how this compares to real open principals.
This talk should first give a brief overview of how processor development is done these days and which steps are required to get to working products at the end of the day, what is needed from a technical perspective, how many people are involved during the process and which process steps are required. Second it should show which requirements are out there for server/cloud products and their customers. Third it should address why there is this openPOWER initiative and what it all means in regards to hardware development. It should show more detailed information the ideas behind this group of different hardware suppliers and universities. It will definitely not end up in an promotional talk but more look behind the curtains how open this format really is and if it can be used by real people at the end or if it only applies to commercial entities.
Matteo Michel
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/9202.html

33:30

OpenPOWER Foundation Overview

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC Stanford HPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IB...

OpenPOWER Foundation Overview

In this video from the 2014 HPCAC StanfordHPC & Exascale Conference, Steve Fields from IBM presents an OpenPOWER Foundation Overview.
"The founding members of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent the next generation in data-center innovation," said Steve Mills, senior vice president, and group executive, IBM Software & Systems. "Combining our talents and assets around the POWER architecture can greatly increase the rate of innovation throughout the industry. Developers now have access to an expanded and open set of server technologies for the first time. This type of 'collaborative development' model will change the way data center hardware is designed and deployed."
Learn more: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/stanford-workshop/agenda.php
and
http://www.open-power.org

29:06

IBM Datacentric Servers & OpenPOWER

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe, Yoonho Park from IBM presents: IBM Data...

Strategy and Directions for the IBM Mainframe

CA World '15 MainframeTheater: Mark Anzani, VP, Strategy, Resilience and Ecosystems - The IBM z Systems™ portfolio of products continues to support critical enterprise processing around the world. In this session, the speaker will cover the strategic directions for the platform and the reasons for these directions based upon technology and client trends.
For more information, please visit: http://cainc.to/uFRSRw

KVM on IBM POWER8 servers

Paul Mackerras
http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/30188/view_talk
Last June, IBM released server machines based on its new POWER8 processor chip. Among the many cool new features in these systems, one stands out: you can now order these systems with KVM as the hypervisor, as an alternative to IBM's proprietary PowerVM.
Our flavour of KVM (we call it PowerKVM) is based on the Linux kernel, KVM, qemu and libvirt, all of which are open source. We also include the open-source Kimchi web interface for virtualization management, or OpenStack or oVirt can be used for management.
The host kernel on these POWER8 machines uses the services of a piece of firmware called OPAL, for OpenPower Abstraction Layer. OPAL is open source, and provides services such as console, real-time clock, non-volatile RAM and a boot loader.
This presentation examines this software stack and covers the issues in porting KVM to run on the POWER8 CPU, which was designed for PowerVM. Some ingenuity was required to bridge the gap to the KVM model of virtualization. In particular, each POWER8 core has 8 hardware threads, but will only run 4 separate guests simultaneously, which creates interesting problems in scheduling guests.

56:35

OpenPOWER Developer Challenge: Using NVIDIA GPUs on OpenPOWER

Meet the experts from NVIDIA and learn all about accelerating your application with GPUs.

Kolab and Power8: How OpenPOWER is changing the game

Talk of Kolab SystemsCEOGeorg Greve at the FSFESummit & QtCon 2016 in Berlin:
Openness and freedom have been moving up and down the stack. By now it is possible to run a data center for High Performance Computing that far outperforms Intel on a complete open hardware and software platform. More energy efficient, made for plug-in cryptography, OpenPOWER is the closest we have come to a stack that is 100% free & open from the hardware over the firmware all the way to the software. Georg will be speaking about why Kolab has been engaging with the OpenPOWER Foundation, our experiences and the potential that OpenPOWER has for software freedom and the IT industry in general.

37:51

OpenPOWER Developer Challenge: Using IBM XL Compilers

Deep-dive on using IBM XL Compilers in SuperVessel for the OpenPOWER Developer Challenge.

IBM Power 720 Power7 Server Overview and Power Up

So literally a day after I made that IntellistationPOWER video I got this server for a good price. This is an IBM Power720 server with a single quad core Power7CPU at 3ghz and 8GB of RAM. I still need to get HDDs for this but it seems to be working fine.

28:18

Open CAPI, A New Standard for High Performance Attachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks

In this video from the Switzerland HPC Conference, Jeffrey Stuecheli from IBM presents: Op...

Open CAPI, A New Standard for High Performance Attachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks

In this video from the SwitzerlandHPCConference, Jeffrey Stuecheli from IBM presents: OpenCAPI, A New Standard for HighPerformanceAttachment of Memory, Acceleration, and Networks.
"OpenCAPI sets a new standard for the industry, providing a high bandwidth, low latency open interface design specification. This session will introduce the new standard and it's goals. This includes details on how the interface protocol provides unprecedented latency and bandwidth to attached devices."
Dr. Stuecheli is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Systems and TechnologyGroup. He works in the area of server hardware architecture. His most recent work includes advanced memory architectures, cache coherence, and accelerator design. He has contributed to the development of numerous IBM products in the POWER architecture family, most recently the POWER8 design. He has been appointed an IBM Master Inventor, authoring some 100 patents. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of TexasAustin in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Stuecheli is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Systems and Technology Group. He works in the area of server hardware architecture. His most recent work includes advanced memory architectures, cache coherence, and accelerator design. He has contributed to the development of numerous IBM products in the POWER architecture family, most recently the POWER8 design. He has been appointed an IBM Master Inventor, authoring some 100 patents. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas Austin in Electrical Engineering.
Learn more: https://openpowerfoundation.org/
and
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OpenPOWER Summit 2015

OpenPOWER Foundation Chairman Gordon MacKean and OpenPOWER Foundation PresidentBrad McCredie present keynote addresses at the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the San Jose Convention Center.
Vice PresidentMichael Diamond opens the Summit with an introduction, and then MacKean explains the vision behind the OpenPOWER Foundation and how its 100+ member community is leveraging open innovation to deliver top performing, scale-out design on the POWER8 infrastructure to the data center market.
Following MacKean’s presentation, McCredie reveals more than 15 new hardware solutions from OpenPOWER Foundation members that are disrupting the data center ecosystem. McCredie also shares how the OpenPOWER Foundation is meeting the need for business model and technology innovation.

33:16

Challenges and discoveries bringing open source software to the PowerPC64LE world.

Challenges and discoveries bringing open source software to the PowerPC64LE world.

Leonardo Bianconi
http://lca2018.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/25/
PowerPC64 little-endian mode was introduced with POWER8 system family, making it easier to port x86_64 applications to it. This is the main target of technologies provided by OpenPOWER Foundation, which is a collaboration for Power Architecture products.
This talk will show the biggest challenges found to port a software initially designed to x86_64 architecture, and what were the solutions adopted, beyond expose some differences between both architectures. Some topics are:
* How to handle the frame differences.
* Push/Pop values dynamically in a PPC64 frame.
* Adapting assembly memory operations.
* Using TOC (Table Of Contents) as an amazing tool.
HHVM, which is the main target of this talk, is a PHP interpreter built by Facebook, which implements the JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation technique to dynamically translate part of itself into assembly code, making its execution faster.
This talk was given at Linux.conf.au 2018 (LCA2018) which was held on 22-26 January 2018 in Sydney Australia.
linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run since 1999, in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year, by a team of local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. For more information on the conference see https://linux.conf.au/
#linux.conf.au #linux #foss #opensource

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